Important for Windows clients: The CUPS PostScript driver for Windows has a bug which makes
it choking on PPD files which contain GUI texts longer than 39 characters. Therefore it is
recommended to use Adobe's PostScript driver. If you still want to use the CUPS driver,
please mark "GUI texts limited to 39 characters" to get an appropriate PPD file.

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Generic Postscript "driver". Generally, for Postscript
printers, you will not need a driver, as all applications produce
PostScript. For the printing system getting access to the
printer-specific features the manufacturer supplies a PPD file for
every PostScript printer. Use this PPD file instead of a
Foomatic-generated one to get all functionality of your PostScript
printer working. The files provided by Foomatic are generic files
which contain only some standard options, use them only if you do
not find an appropriate PPD for your printer.

One can make use of all functionality which the PostScript
printers have under Windows/MacOS when one uses the PPD file
coming with the printer, downloaded from here on OpenPrinting, from the
manufacturer's home page, or from Adobe's
web site (do "unzip -L [filename].EXE" to get the
PPD files). If there are several different PPD files for your
printer model and none dedicated for Linux or Unix, the PPD for
Windows NT works best in most cases.

CUPS and PPR support PPD files directly, LPD/GNUlpr/LPRng, PDQ,
CPS, and spooler-less users can set up their printers with
foomatic-rip as they would set up a printer
with a Foomatic PPD file. foomatic-rip works
as well with manufacturer-supplied PostScript PPD files. This way
all PostScript printers work perfectly under GNU/Linux or other
free operating systems. Ghostscript is not needed for them. See
also our PPD documentation
page for instructions.